Abstract: The study assessed the contribution of non-farm income to household food security in Makurdi Local Government area, Benue State of Nigeria. This is with view to analyzed household factors that influence food security. Purposive and simple random samplings were used to collect data from 110 household head in the study area using a well structure questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, food security index, logit regression model and Wald test were used to analyze the data collected. Analysis of the non-farm income activities embarked upon by household identifies that almost all the respondents were engaged in business center (29). The study revealed that age of household head (0.114), income of the household head (0.0001) and numbers of non-farm activities (1.005) were positive and significant influencing households’ food security. Furthermore, 77.1% of the respondents were found to be food secured while 22.9 % were not food secured. Household with non-farm income activities were found to be more food secured (80.4%) than household with no non-farm income activities (28.5%). The study recommends that the household should diversify production into other non-farm activities to earn more and increase their food security status.
Keywords: household, non-farm income, food security.
Title: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE CONTRIBUTION OF NON-FARM INCOME TO HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY IN MAKURDI LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF BENUE STATE, NIGERIA
Author: J. A. C EZIHE, GAMBA VANDI, Iornyor Chelsea Hembadoon
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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